TY - GEN
T1 - Design and analysis of reconfigurable antennas for WiMAX applications
AU - Sworo, George D.
AU - Dandekar, Kapil R.
AU - Kam, Moshe
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, the design of a pattern reconfigurable antenna for applications that operate in the WiMAX frequency band between 2.5 - 2.7 GHz is presented. The proposed antenna system consists of an array of two reconfigurable microstrip dipoles, whose active elements can be reconfigured in length using PIN diode switches. The setting of the different switches results in different geometries of the antenna and, consequently, different levels of inter-element mutual coupling and array far-field radiation patterns. The characteristics of the antenna parameters and patterns is analyzed. And, through experimental field testing, the performance of the proposed antenna array is evaluated based on the received Carrier to Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (CINR) as a metric.
AB - In this paper, the design of a pattern reconfigurable antenna for applications that operate in the WiMAX frequency band between 2.5 - 2.7 GHz is presented. The proposed antenna system consists of an array of two reconfigurable microstrip dipoles, whose active elements can be reconfigured in length using PIN diode switches. The setting of the different switches results in different geometries of the antenna and, consequently, different levels of inter-element mutual coupling and array far-field radiation patterns. The characteristics of the antenna parameters and patterns is analyzed. And, through experimental field testing, the performance of the proposed antenna array is evaluated based on the received Carrier to Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (CINR) as a metric.
KW - Antenna Arrays
KW - Reconfigurable Antennas
KW - WiMAX
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U2 - 10.1109/WAMICON.2013.6572732
DO - 10.1109/WAMICON.2013.6572732
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883434223
SN - 9781467355360
T3 - 2013 IEEE 14th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMICON 2013
BT - 2013 IEEE 14th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMICON 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE 14th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMICON 2013
Y2 - 7 April 2013 through 9 April 2013
ER -